The Osun State Police Command arrested seven suspects for selling human parts and water used to bathe corpses.
The suspects include two mortuary attendants, Johnson Daniel (43) and Adetunji Okunade (42), along with Olaniyan Azeez, Balogun Temitope, Oladapo Hammed, Kazeem Rasaq, and Asaka Rauf.
According to Police Public Relations Officer Emmanuel Giwa-Alade, “the suspects arrested included two mortuary attendants -Johnson Daniel, aged 43, and Adetunji Okunade, aged 42 years.”
Giwa-Alade listed others arrested for the crime as Olaniyan Azeez, Balogun Temitope, Oladapo Hammed, Kazeem Rasaq, and Asaka Rauf.
He stated, “The said suspects use these remains from the mortuary attendant (Johnson Daniel) for different ritual purposes.
Daniel also confessed that he conspired with one other mortuary attendant named Adetunji Okunade ‘m’ to sell the remnant of water used in bathing corpses to interested native doctors.”
In the course of an investigation, a search was conducted at the residences of these suspects, which led to the recovery of fragments of substances suspected to be a human skull at Asaka Rauf ‘m’ and Oladapo Hammed ‘m’’s residences, while a female pant and a notebook containing instructions on ritual practices were recovered from Balogun Temitope Asimiyu’s residence.
Regarding another incident, Oluwafemi Fagbuyi was arrested for canvassing support for the Yoruba Nation in the state.
According to Giwa-Alade, Fagbuyi told his audience, “to denounce their allegiance to Nigeria as a nation.
He claimed that Nigeria ended in 2014 after 100 years of amalgamation. He displayed the Yoruba Nation’s flag in the process.”
